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There is much mystery surrounding the death of Tupac Shakur, killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. Was Shakur's murder gang-related? Was it part of the East Coast/West Coast hip-hop rivalry — perhaps related to the unsolved murder of Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls?

Alana Lynn, a morning co-host on country music station 104.3 FM in Boise, Idaho, was excited to play Little Big Town's latest single for her listeners. Girl Crush, a powerful ballad about a woman envious of her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend, seemed destined to be a hit.

At 26, Veronica Roth already has penned a bestselling YA book trilogy and co-produced two films, including The Divergent Series: Insurgent, starring Shailene Woodley, Miles Teller and Kate Winslet. Roth wrote Divergent when she was a 21-year-old college senior; her wild ascent has been a surreal ride. She …

Twenty-five years before Lily James shoehorned herself into a princess gown to play Cinderella, another up-and-comer donned a differently problematic dress for a romantic fairy tale that also struck box office gold.

Ask a diehard John Williams fan to pick his top five pieces, and he'll probably say it's just not possible. • Such is the case for Bob Bernhardt, who visits the Florida Orchestra this weekend to conduct an all-John Williams concert spanning everything from Superman to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's …

Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut Star Trek,died Friday at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was …

There's a moment, I think, in every devoted parent's life when they look at their child and think that anything is possible. This child, they think, can be anything or do anything she wants, and it's my job to help her get there.